Yadel Okorie
Yadel is a sophomore mechanical engineering major at the Johns Hopkins University. Growing up in Nigeria, Yadel became aware of the various problems and issues that people in developing countries face and hopes to continue to work to solve these problems by developing his skills and using them to empower others.
Harald Oswin
Harald Oswin is an Applied Mathematics concentrator at Harvard University who is based in the Republic of South Africa. His interests are entrepreneurship, statistics, design, technology, finance and politics. He believes entrepreneurship will be the key turbine for development in the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. For that reason, he would love to […]
Rachel McGirt
Rachel is a student at UNC-Asheville where she plays on the women’s basketball team as a full scholarship Division I athlete. Ms. McGirt is involved in several student organizations at UNC-Asheville and is the President of the UNC-Asheville chapter of Healthy Girls Save The World. She helped to found Healthy Girls Save The World with […]
Tristine Johnson
As a varsity Track and Field athlete, Tristine Johnson feels that she never would have achieved her successes without the support and encouragement of the people in her community. She is the co-president of HGSW because she has a deep passion for helping people and wants to give girls in the community the same support […]
Whitley O’Connor
Whitley O’Connor is a rising senior at Vanderbilt University double majoring in Sociology and Human and Organizational Development. He first got involved in social enterprise at the beginning of his sophomore year when he helped develop and launch Teach Twice, a nonprofit book publisher that takes stories from around the world, publishes and sells them […]
Reena Gupta
Reena is an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying Public Policy with minors in Spanish and Women’s Studies. On campus, she leads Healthy Girls Save the World, is a co-director of Carolina United, and dances for Misconception Dance Company. She believes in a campus and a world that are committed […]
Love Odetola
Born in Nigeria, Love moved to Senegal with her missionary parents at the age of eight. In rural Senegal, she was exposed to health and socio-economic disparities. She, therefore, decided to devote her life to bridge the disparities. In pursuit of this, she is at St. Olaf College now working towards a bachelor degree in Public […]
Shilpa Mokshagundam
Shilpa Mokshagundam is a rising senior at Vanderbilt University, double majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Child Development. Over the past 3 years at Vanderbilt, Shilpa has become increasingly involved with the Nashville community through a myriad of service organizations. Her unique experiences in the food insecure neighborhoods of Nashville have sparked an interest […]
Barry McKenna
Barry McKenna hails from rural Central California but has a special place in his heart for metropolitan Boston, enjoying its engaging diversity of people and ideas during his time studying Mechanical Engineering at Harvard College. After graduating in 2014, he began an internship with Cru, a Christian non-profit that provides spiritual mentorship and life skills […]
Jim Jin
A Chinese native, Jim (Depeng) Jin studies Psychology and Economics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. At school, he is heavily involved with Vanderbilt Alternative Spring Break, a student organization that sends over 400 students every year to 30 + service sites across America and the world. In 2013, Jim, Shilpa, Maryli and Whitley co-started […]
